Computer problem - no activity?
I just installed a liquid cooling system and now when I hit my power button, absolutly nothing happens. the PSU and pump turn on and the DVD drives make their usual noises, but there are no beeps to verify, or announce a problem with the memory check. the monitor has no signal and my keyboard/mouse do not light up. I have an AMD L1N64 motherboard with two 2.8 ghz athlon 64 FX dual cores. (not X2s,) two 1 gig sticks of OCZ 1150 mHz ram, and a BFG 8800 GTX liquid cooled edition. there was some water on the video card, but I dried it and waited 24 hours before powering up. Before the new liquid cooling system was installed the computer worked perfectly. any thoughts?
Update:zacko:
unless they can overheat in under a second, they should at least turn on once. my radiator fans are connected to the motherboard and they turn on just fine. Also, I can't switch the CPUs to another board because its an L1N64, they use a very uncommon socket (L1, 1207FX, or F) also my computer has to be liquid cooled because my video card is liquid cooling only. Yes, its just for bragging rights, but It doesn't have a fan on it, so fans aren't really an option.
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Well the processor has to stay cool enough or the processor will not stay on. I have been doing this for over a decade, and I tell people liquid cooling is just for show off. There is a lot of problems and I highly suggest not doing it. Do you have any fans connected to the motherboard? Do they work? Also the only way to find out if the board is toast is to switch out the parts to another motherboard. Eliminate what works and doesn't is your best bet. If you didn't make any changes to the board it should work fine.
One last thing, if the video card is overheating, the computer will not kick on either.
You should always hear some type of post, check the speaker. Sounds like the motherboard can't even boot.
Goodluck
New add-on: Well without being able to cross-check, switch out the board and cpu... then your stuck sorry. It doesn't take long for a processor to overheat and really become damaged. Depends when the motherboard shuts down to prevent damage.
I actually had something similar to this, again this probably isn't the answer but I will bring it up anyway. The battery cmos was somehow tripped where it had to be switched back for the board to boot. But again I doubt that is your case. I haven't seen this before... and I assume you'll need a new motherboard, sounds like damaged...
Did you take out the video card? Boot and check for beep? I would switch video card... if you haven't. Like I said earlier, sometimes the motherboard will not make a complete boot when there is a problem with the video card.
As far as when the water got on the card could be a determining factor. If your power supply was connected, there is a trickle charge that runs through the board, even when turned off. Hope the power plug was out of the unit. When you dried the unit did you remove it and use forced air to make sure some was not caught inder a component? Due to surface tension, water can stay for many days caught under a component. In the right location it can take out the M/B. Hope it was just the vid card.
I'd try to default to the onboard video to see if that works, if not I'd say you might have a scrambled board. Check your jumpers too, no beep codes equals the speaker jumper isn't there or loose lol.
You sound pretty tech savvy so I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. If not.... Take it into a shop
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the water that was on the vid card could also have gotton onto the mobo or wherever you have you mouse/keyboard connected. you probably have to replace your vid card, and possibly even your mobo or usb drives.